Revolver is a poliziottesco

Poliziotteschi

Poliziotteschi films constitute a sub-genre of crime and action film that emerged in Italy in the late 1960s and reached the height of their popularity in the 1970s...

 film directed by Sergio Sollima

Sergio Sollima

Sergio Sollima is an Italian former film director and script writer.Like many Italian cult directors, Sollima started his career by directing mostly sword and sandal movies that were very popular in the early 1960s. After the genre's popularity quickly died out, Sollima was among the first ones to...

 and released in 1973. It stars Oliver Reed

Oliver Reed

Oliver Reed was an English actor known for his burly screen presence. Reed exemplified his real-life macho image in "tough guy" roles...

 and Fabio Testi and the film's theme "Un Amico" which was scored by Ennio Morricone

Ennio Morricone

Ennio Morricone, Grand Officer OMRI, , is an Italian composer and conductor, who wrote music to more than 500 motion pictures and television series, in a career lasting over 50 years. His scores have been included in over 20 award-winning films as well as several symphonic and choral pieces...

 was also featured in Quentin Tarantino

Quentin Tarantino

Quentin Jerome Tarantino is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer and actor. In the early 1990s, he began his career as an independent filmmaker with films employing nonlinear storylines and the aestheticization of violence...

 movie Inglorious Basterds (2009)

Plot

An Italian official's wife is kidnapped, and the kidnappers demand that a notorious prisoner be released in order for the man to get his wife back. He gets the man released - but then kidnaps him himself, in order to ensure that the man's colleagues don't kill his wife. Enraged, the gang sets out to free their compatriot and kill the man who took him.

Cast

• Oliver Reed
  Oliver Reed
  Oliver Reed was an English actor known for his burly screen presence. Reed exemplified his real-life macho image in "tough guy" roles...
  
  ... Vito Cipriani
• Fabio Testi
  Fabio Testi
  Fabio Testi is an Italian film actor, notable as the star of, among many other films, First Action Hero.Born in Peschiera del Garda, Italy, the 1.84m tall actor started his film career as a stuntman in his college years...
  
  ... Milo Ruiz
• Paola Pitagora
  Paola Pitagora
  Paola Pitagora is an Italian film actress. She has appeared in 50 films since 1959.She was born in Parma, Italy.-Selected filmography:* Fists in the Pocket * In Search of Gregory * Revolver...
  
  ... Carlotta
• Agostina Belli
  Agostina Belli
  Agostina Belli is an Italian film actress. She has appeared in over 50 films since 1968. She was born in Milan, Italy.-Selected filmography:* Bandits in Milan * The Seduction of Mimi * Revolver...
  
  ... Anna Cipriani
• Frédéric de Pasquale
  Frédéric de Pasquale
  Frédéric de Pasquale was a French actor. He appeared in 50 films and television shows between 1960 and 2001.-Selected filmography:* Children of Mata Hari * The French Connection...
  
  ... Michel Granier
• Marc Mazza... Bald Police Inspector
• Reinhard Kolldehoff
  Reinhard Kolldehoff
  Reinhard Kolldehoff was a German film actor. He appeared in 140 films between 1941 and 1988.He was born and died in Berlin, Germany.-Selected filmography:* Bürgermeister Anna * Hanussen...
  
  ... French Lawyer (as René Kolldehoff)
• Bernard Giraudeau
  Bernard Giraudeau
  Bernard Giraudeau was a French actor, film director, scriptwriter, producer and writer.-Life:Giraudeau was born in La Rochelle, Charente-Maritime. In 1963 he enlisted in the French navy as a trainee engineer, qualifying as the first in his class a year later...
  
  
• Peter Berling
  Peter Berling
  Peter Berling is a German actor and writer. He has worked on several occasions with director Werner Herzog, in his collaborations with actor Klaus Kinski....
  
  ... Grappa
• Gunnar Warner
• Daniel Beretta... Al Niko
• Calisto Calisti... Maresciallo Fantuzzi
• Steffen Zacharias... Joe Lacour
• Michel Bardinet
• Salvatore Borghese... Suicidal Prisoner